Wisconsin All Copays Count Coalition: Legislators set for pivotal moment this week – Wednesday – to protect WI patients
Assembly Hearing on Cole’s Act & Potential Floor Votes in Both Chambers Would Pave the Way for Wisconsin to Become the 27th State to Ban PBM Copay Accumulators MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin lawmakers will face a defining moment this Wednesday
Liners campaign: David Liners campaign launch
MILWAUKEE On Saturday, February 7, David Liners launched his campaign for the State Assembly in Wisconsin’s 21st District. “I’m running because we can’t afford business as usual,” said Liners. Among the priorities of the campaign are: Fully funding public schools
Dept. of Transportation: New blackout and retro license plates top 10,000 in first month
In the first month since their debut, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) Division of Motor Vehicles has issued just over 10,000 Blackout and Retro license plates (10,694): Blackout plates totaled 9,493 and nearly half of those were personalized (4,634)
U.S. Rep. Van Orden: Pothole Pete and commie Cooke, a match made in heaven
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, WI. – Pete Buttigieg, the failed mayor and out-of-touch Transportation Secretary, just made it official: he’s throwing his full support behind Commie Cooke in her third attempt to claim Wisconsin’s Third Congressional seat. BUTTIGIEG’S RADICAL RECORD WASTED more
Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association: Urgent call to action to oppose PFAS legislation
The Green Bay Innovation Group and the Wisconsin Paper Council are working with a coalition of manufacturing organizations to oppose PFAS enforcement legislation which is rapidly making its way through the Legislature. Our coalition is united against Assembly Bill 131
Maggie Brickerman: Wisconsin loses when data center plans fail
The question isn’t whether data centers are coming. They are. The question is whether Wisconsin will do the hard work required to capture the benefits, mitigate the downsides and be a leader in the high-tech economy.
Bill Berry: With reporters away, shady government officials can play
Wisconsin, once a bastion of open government, is now dealing with billion- and trillion-dollar entities seeking to plant huge data centers here. And there aren’t enough journalists to shine a light on what’s happening.
Judith Davidoff: Republicans take up ‘anti-SLAPP’ legislation
Bills aim to strengthen free speech protections, but future is uncertain.
Brian Fraley: DPI response fails to make the grade
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction has many problems. They’re self righteous, secretive and indignant. Their communications efforts do not offer clarity, they obfuscate. This was on full display in their spokesperson’s response to Dairyland Sentinel’s reporting.
Richard Moore: The biggest bully in the school just might be … the school
There was a time when the biggest bully in school was a kid with a bad haircut and a mean streak. These days, in too many places, the biggest bully in the school is the school itself.
Dalia Brasuel: Wisconsin bill echos national legislative assault on trans youth
AB104 would intervene within the privileged, confidential relationship between physicians and pediatric patients, offering no avenue of support for gender-diverse youth at a time when the Lemkin Institute has characterized the erosion of transgender rights in the United States as indicative of the “early stages of genocide.”
Bill Kaplan: GOP-Trump, higher health care premiums
Wisconsin Democrats are promoting affordability and economic security, while Republicans’ stonewalling on ACA tax credits results in more suffering and political payback for the GOP in November.
James Causey: Trump Obama ape video latest in string of unhinged actions
Anyone blindly defending this behavior is as much as racist as Trump. This is not the first time he crossed the line.
Dave Zweifel: Trump’s cabinet full of names we’d like to forget
I wonder if my old civics teacher would have wanted us to memorize these names?
Michelle Bryant: When the pulpit speaks, communities listen
Inside or outside the church, all of us have a role to play in advocating for social justice.